A Little Bit of THIS and A Little Bit of THAT!

 

Who Am I?

I am your constant companion.

I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.

I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.

I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,

and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.

I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.

Show me exactly how you want something done, 

and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great men.

And, alas, of all failures as well.

Those who are great, I have made great.

Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.

Plus, the intelligence of a man.

You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;

it makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me 

and I will put the world at your feet.

Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

HABIT!

Short Riddles That Will Still Stump You

Short easy riddles

1. Riddle: Mississippi has four S’s and four I’s. Can you spell that without using S or I?
Answer: T-H-A-T!

2. Riddle: There’s a one-story house where everything is yellow. The walls are yellow. The doors are yellow. All the furniture is yellow. The house has yellow beds and yellow couches. What color are the stairs?
Answer: There are no stairs—it’s a one-story house!

3. Riddle: A girl fell off a 20-foot ladder. She wasn’t hurt. How?
Answer: She fell off the bottom step.

4. Riddle: Grandpa went out for a walk, and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible?
Answer: Grandpa’s bald!

5. Riddle: You’re in a race and you pass the person in second place. What place are you in now?
Answer: Second place.

6. Riddle: What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
Answer: NOON.

7. Riddle: What is at the end of the rainbow?
Answer: The letter W!

8. Riddle: Name three consecutive days without naming any of the seven days of the week.
Answer: Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

9. Riddle: You are in a dark room with a box of matches. On a table are a candle, an oil lamp and a log of firewood. What do you light first?
Answer: The match! Can’t light any of those things without a lit match.

10. Riddle: Two people were playing chess. They both won. How is this possible?
Answer: They were playing two different games, against other opponents.

11. Riddle: What word is always spelled wrong?
Answer: “Wrong.” Well, if you want to get technical, it’s not always spelled W-R-O-N-G … if you spell it wrong! So then, is it still spelled wrong? Phew! Short riddles can still make you think a whole lot.

12. Riddle: Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?
Answer: The “C.”

13. Riddle: What invention lets you look right through a wall?
Answer: A window!

14. Riddle: Where does today come before yesterday?
Answer: In the dictionary.

15. Riddle: Three doctors all say Robert is their brother. Robert says he has no brothers. Who is lying?
Answer: No one—the doctors are Robert’s sisters.

16. Riddle: What kind of ship has two mates but no captain?
Answer: A relationship.

17. Riddle: A man is holding exactly $5.25 but only has one coin. How is this possible?
Answer: He has a quarter and a $5 bill.

18. Riddle: I called my dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crossed the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge, a boat or a raft. How is that possible?
Answer: The river was frozen.

19. What two words, added together, contain the most letters?
Answer: Post office.


Short “What am I?” riddles

20. Riddle: You can hold me in your left hand but not your right. What am I?
Answer: Your right elbow (or right hand)!

21. Riddle: I go around all the places, cities, towns and villages, but never come inside. What am I?
Answer: A street.

22. Riddle: You go at red and stop at green. What am I?
Answer: A watermelon.

23. Riddle: I have married many times but have always been single. Who am I?
Answer: A priest.

24. Riddle: I am higher without a head. What am I?
Answer: A pillow.

25. I have 13 hearts, but no lungs or stomach. What am I?
Answer: A deck of cards.

26. Riddle: I am easy to lift but hard to throw. What am I?
Answer: A feather. (A piece of paper or a leaf would certainly qualify too!)

27. Riddle: I break but never fall. And I fall but never break. What are we?
Answer: Day and night.


Short hard riddles

28. Riddle: Bella is outside a shop. She can’t read the signs, but she knows she needs to go in to make a purchase. What store is she at?
Answer: An eyeglass store.

29. Riddle: Wednesday, Bill and Jim went to a restaurant. They ordered and ate their food. Then they paid the bill, but neither Bill nor Jim paid. Who did?
Answer: Wednesday did!

30. Riddle: What are the next three letters in this sequence: O, T, T, F, F, S, S—what comes next?
Answer: E, N, T. The letters are the first letters of the written numbers: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. “Eight, nine, ten” are next.

31. Riddle: How can you physically stand behind your father while he is standing behind you?
Answer: You and your father are standing back-to-back.

32. Riddle: What type of cheese is made backward?
Answer: Edam.

33. Riddle: A girl throws a ball as hard as she can. It comes back to her, even though nothing and nobody touches it. How?
Answer: She throws it straight up in the air!

34. Riddle: An electric train is headed east. Where does the smoke go?
Answer: Electric trains don’t produce any smoke!

35. Riddle: What is the one thing everyone can agree is between heaven and earth?
Answer: The word “and.”

36. Riddle: When is “L” greater than “XL”?
Answer: When you’re using Roman numerals.

37. Riddle: How can the number four be half of five?
Answer: IV, the Roman numeral for four, is half (the middle two letters) of the word “five.”

38. Riddle: A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was not out. There were no streetlights. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. Luckily, the truck driver stopped in time—how did he see her?
Answer: It was daytime!

39. Riddle: A horse attached to a 24-foot chain wants an apple that is 26 feet away. He reaches the apple and munches on it, no problem—how is that possible?
Answer: The other end of the chain isn’t attached to anything.

Funny short riddles

40. Riddle: What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs.

41. Riddle: If you drop a yellow hat in the Red Sea, what does it become?
Answer: Wet.

42. Riddle: What color is the wind?
Answer: Blew.

43. Riddle: What tastes better than it smells?
Answer: Your tongue.

44. Riddle: What can jump higher than a building?
Answer: Anything that can jump—buildings can’t jump!

45. Riddle: Which word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: “Short.”

46. Riddle: What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.

47. Riddle: A monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree. Who will get the banana first?
Answer: None of them—coconut trees don’t produce bananas!

48. Riddle: I can be cracked, I can be made. I can be told, I can be played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.



From READER'S DIGEST

Riddle of the Month

 

Ready for a tidal wave of confusion?

Use your super sleuth skills to solve the viral

"There's a woman in a boat" riddle.

Our phones offer endless forms of entertainment and education, and what better way to fill a few minutes of free time and exercise your brain than a simple riddle? There’s one viral brain teaser that has people staring blankly at their screens wondering if they need a second cup of coffee to activate those cognitive skills. The viral “There’s a woman in a boat” riddle is a popular puzzle that has people who can typically solve hard riddles super stumped.

Unlike many riddles that challenge your smarts, this head-scratcher becomes a bit more simple when you see that the answer is in the riddle. While some riddles (like “If I had four eggs…”) test your math skills, the “There’s a woman in a boat” riddle is more of a mystery to your cranium’s creativity. Good luck!

There is a woman in a boat, on a lake, wearing a coat. If you want to know her name, it’s in the riddle I just wrote. What’s her name?

The Hint
Read the riddle a few times, and the answer will appear. It’s not a long riddle, so you can look at it in small parts. Focus on the beginning of the riddle. Don’t overthink the teaser. The woman’s name is not a common one and could be replaced with your name or your best friend’s name.

The Answer
“There” is the woman’s name.
“There’s a woman in a boat” riddle revealed

The Viral
“There’s a woman in a boat” riddle achieves the primary goal of a good short riddle: It leaves you confused and hunting for the solution in places that take you further away from the answer. While “There” is not a traditional moniker, it serves the purpose of having you swimming for answers in faraway waters. Once you figure out the riddle, it seems super silly, but you’ll probably ask a few friends to try to solve it.

Did you enjoy this riddle? If so, you’ll love our other viral riddles and brain teasers. And if you really want to give your brain a workout, try our more challenging riddles.

See original from Reader's Digest HERE

Riddle of the Month!

TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT BEFORE YOU READ BELOW!!!

This is a deceptively tricky riddle! 

If your first thought was that Mr. Smith has eight children, you’re not alone. Lots of people think that each daughter has one brother, making four daughters and four brothers, which equals eight children. 

But nope, that’s not right! 

The riddle seems like a math test on the surface, but it’s actually all about reading comprehension.

The answer to the riddle is … five. 

Mr. Smith has five children. Each of his daughters has a brother, but they all share the same brother. Therefore, four daughters plus one brother equals five children in total. Grammar nerds might have gotten this one right before math lovers!

Of course, it’s called the “Mr. Smith had four daughters” riddle, so you could interpret that past tense “had” in two ways: 

First, that Mr. Smith had four daughters—i.e., that four daughters were born to him. 

Or you could read it to mean that Mr. Smith used to have four daughters, they all died, in which case the answer to how many children he had might be one.

However, the more commonly accepted interpretation is the first one: that Mr. Smith has four daughters and one son, making five children in total.

From Reader's Digest - original HERE

Hardy and Funny Riddles For Adults - How Good Are You??!!

1. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?

2. What gets wet while drying?

3. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?

4. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?

5. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?

6. What can you catch, but not throw?

7. What kind of band never plays music?

8. What has many teeth, but cannot bite?

9. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?

10. What has one eye, but can’t see?

11. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?

12. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?

13. What kind of room has no doors or windows?

14. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?

15. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?

16. What is the end of everything?

17. What part of the chicken has the most feathers?

18. What has a bottom at the top?

19. How far can you walk into the woods?

20. What is red and smells like blue paint?

21. When is a door no longer a door?

22. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

23. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?

24. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

25. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?

26. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

27. Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?

28. The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

29. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?

From Reader's Digest - sorry I don't have the web site reference.

ANSWERS

1. What time is it when an elephant sits on a fence?
Answer: Time to fix the fence.

2. What gets wet while drying?
Answer: A towel

3. What is the difference between a jeweler and a jailer?
Answer: A jeweler sells watches and a jailer watches cells.

4. What can go up a chimney down, but can’t go down a chimney up?
Answer: An umbrella

5. What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Answer: Your left hand

6. What can you catch, but not throw?
Answer: A cold

7. What kind of band never plays music?
Answer: A rubber band

8. What has many teeth, but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb

9. What has lots of eyes, but can’t see?
Answer: A potato

10. What has one eye, but can’t see?
Answer: A needle

11. What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
Answer: A stamp

12. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
A: Lunch and dinner

13. What kind of room has no doors or windows?
Answer: A mushroom

14. What do Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have in common?
Answer: Their middle names.

15. Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
Answer: Mt. Everest, it just wasn’t discovered yet.

16. What is the end of everything?
Answer: The letter “G”

17. What part of the chicken has the most feathers?
Answer: The outside

18. What has a bottom at the top?
Answer: Your legs

19. How far can you walk into the woods?
Answer: Halfway — after that, you’re walking out.

20. What is red and smells like blue paint?
Answer: Red paint

21. When is a door no longer a door?
Answer: When it’s ajar.

22. Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?
Answer: The letter “R.”

23. A plane crashed between the border of France and Belgium. Where were the survivors buried?
Answer: They weren’t. Survivors don’t need to be buried.

24. Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
Answer: Nothing

25. What runs, but never walks. Murmurs, but never talks. Has a bed, but never sleeps. And has a mouth, but never eats?
Answer: A river

26. I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map

27. Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?
Answer: Live

28. The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Answer: A coffin

29. You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What would you light first?
Answer: The match

Quiz Challenge - See How YOU Do!

 

1  A Coffin

2  The child was born before 1776

3  Mount Everest (it just hadn't been disovered

4  Clara lives in the Sourthern Hemisphere

5  They fall in the same year ever year - New Year's Day just arrives very early in the year and Christmas arrives very late in the same year.

6  The lady was a justice of the peace

7  Neithr.  The yolk of the egg is yellow

8  They were husband and wife

9  No.  A dead man can marry no one!

10  Moses took no animals.  It was Noah on the Ark

SCORING:

8-10 Correct = Can't Be Fooled

6-7 Correct = No Fooling

4-5 Correct = Fool's Gold

2-3 Corect = Feeling foolish

0-1 Correct = Fooled You!

You Good At Riddles?

Q: I cover what's real, hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?


Q:   I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?


Q:  What has a head yet it never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but cannot walk, and has a bank but not a cent to its name?


Q: What has a foot but no legs?


Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?


Q: What comes down but never goes up?


Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?


Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?


Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?


Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?


A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the operating room and the doctor said, “I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.”
How is that possible?


Q: What goes up when rain comes down?


Q: What is the longest word in the dictionary?


Q: If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?


Q: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?


Q: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?


Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?

Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?


Q: What has 4 eyes but can’t see?


Q: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?


Q: Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?


Q: What has hands but can not clap?


Q: What can you catch but not throw?


Q: A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and a bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?


Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?


Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?


Q: What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?


Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?


Q: You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?

Q: A man was driving his truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. How did he see her?


Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?


Q: If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?


Q: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?


Q: What has one eye but cannot see?


Q: A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?


Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?


Q: How many months have 28 days?


Q: A frog jumped into a pot of cream and started treading. He soon felt something solid under his feet and was able to hop out of the pot. What did the frog feel under his feet?


Q: A horse is on a 24 foot chain and wants an apple that is 26 feet away. How can the horse get to the apple?


Q: If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?


Q: What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney up?


Q: We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?


Q: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?

Q: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?


Q: How do you make the number one disappear?


Q; What goes up but never comes down?

ANSWERS!

Q: I cover what's real, hide what is true, but sometimes bring out the courage in you. What am I?
A:  Makeup

Q:   I turn around once. What is out will not get in. I turn around again. What is in will not get out. What am I?
A:  A key

Q:  What has a head yet it never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but cannot walk, and has a bank but not a cent to its name?
A:  A River

Q: What has a foot but no legs?
A: A snail

Q: Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?
A: Nothing

Q: What comes down but never goes up?
A: Rain

Q: I’m tall when I’m young and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A: A candle

Q: Mary’s father has 5 daughters – Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the fifth daughters name?
A: If you answered Nunu, you are wrong. It’s Mary!

Q: How can a pants pocket be empty and still have something in it?
A: It can have a hole in it.

Q: In a one-story pink house, there was a pink person, a pink cat, a pink fish, a pink computer, a pink chair, a pink table, a pink telephone, a pink shower– everything was pink!
What color were the stairs?
A: There weren’t any stairs, it was a one story house!

A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the operating room and the doctor said, “I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.”
How is that possible?
A: The doctor is his mom!

Q: What goes up when rain comes down?
A: An umbrella!

Q: What is the longest word in the dictionary?
A: Smiles, because there is a mile between each ‘s’

Q: If I drink, I die. If I eat, I am fine. What am I?
A: A fire!

Q: Throw away the outside and cook the inside, then eat the outside and throw away the inside. What is it?
A: Corn on the cob, because you throw away the husk, cook and eat the kernels, and throw away the cob.

Q: What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
A: Short

Q: What travels around the world but stays in one spot?
A: A stamp!

Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?
A: The letter M

Q: What has 4 eyes but can’t see?
A: Mississippi

Q: If I have it, I don’t share it. If I share it, I don’t have it. What is it?
A: A Secret.

Q: Take away my first letter, and I still sound the same. Take away my last letter, I still sound the same. Even take away my letter in the middle, I will still sound the same. I am a five letter word. What am I?
A: EMPTY

Q: What has hands but can not clap?
A: A clock

Q: What can you catch but not throw?
A: A cold.

Q: A house has 4 walls. All of the walls are facing south, and a bear is circling the house. What color is the bear?
A: The house is on the north pole, so the bear is white.

Q: What is at the end of a rainbow?
A: The letter W!

Q: What is as light as a feather, but even the world’s strongest man couldn’t hold it for more than a minute?
A: His breath!

Q: What starts with the letter “t”, is filled with “t” and ends in “t”?
A: A teapot!

Q: What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?
A: Silence.

Q: You walk into a room with a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. Which do you light first?
A: The match.

Q: A man was driving his truck. His lights were not on. The moon was not out. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. How did he see her?
A: It was a bright and sunny day!

Q: What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A: A palm!

Q: If an electric train is traveling south, which way is the smoke going?
A: There is no smoke, it’s an electric train!

Q: You draw a line. Without touching it, how do you make the line longer?
A: You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.

Q: What has one eye but cannot see?
A: A needle

Q: A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?
A: A Catcher and Umpire.

Q: Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
A: Neither, they both weigh one pound!

Q: How many months have 28 days?
A: All 12 months!

Q: A frog jumped into a pot of cream and started treading. He soon felt something solid under his feet and was able to hop out of the pot. What did the frog feel under his feet?
A: The frog felt butter under his feet, because he churned the cream and made butter.

Q: A horse is on a 24 foot chain and wants an apple that is 26 feet away. How can the horse get to the apple?
A: The chain is not attached to anything.

Q: If a blue house is made out of blue bricks, a yellow house is made out of yellow bricks and a pink house is made out of pink bricks, what is a green house made of?
A: Glass

Q: What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney up?
A: an umbrella

Q: We see it once in a year, twice in a week, and never in a day. What is it?
A: The letter “E”

Q: Mr. Blue lives in the blue house, Mr. Pink lives in the pink house, and Mr. Brown lives in the brown house. Who lives in the white house?
A: The president!

Q: They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?
A: Stars!

Q: How do you make the number one disappear?
A: Add the letter G and it’s “GONE”

Q; What goes up but never comes down?
A: Your age!